Exposed: Russian Plan to Ignite US-Mexican Strife During Election
Ambitious, maybe delusional project imagines Mexicans can be moved to violence over 1848 war losses to the US
As part of the Russian government-directed foreign malign influence campaigns directed at Washington, Russia hopes to draw Mexico into a violent conflict with the United States by encouraging “anti-American sentiment” in Mexico, exploiting Mexicans´“existential conflict” around the loss of half of its territory two centuries ago, and provoke violence in the border to help Donald Trump win in next week’s presidential election, a Russian intelligence document recently declassified by the Department of Justice shows. “This kind of project is going to show the world that a huge country of 130 million people, with the longest border with the United States, has finally woken up,” the six-page document says.
Headed “A Mexican Pass to Candidate A” (clearly meaning Trump) and subtitled, “Project of effective proxy participation in the November 2024 Campaign,” the document opens with a map of the United States and Mexico, in which California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas no longer belong to the U.S. but are rather depicted as a “broken glass,” with the sign “Mexico no perdona” (Mexico does not forgive) displayed along the dividing line. The document, included in an FBI affidavit, is undated but written sometime in the fall of 2023.
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